Eurosatory, Paris. For one week every two years, the entire defence world walks the same halls at Villepinte, past thousands of companies at the same pace. For an established prime, the show is a ritual. For a company making its debut, it’s the whole game. Black Hawk was arriving with no archive of content and no second chance. Whatever the sector saw that week would become the company’s image.

We embedded with them for the week. Coverage of the stand, the hardware and the conversations as they happened, and a sit-down founder interview that did the thing a stand can’t do. It explained why the company exists, in the voice of the person who built it. The film now lives on Black Hawk’s channels and gets used to pitch clients and investors. The week ended. The work didn’t. Black Hawk came back for the product launch, the website and the social presence. What began as event coverage became a brand presence that runs between shows.